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Your device still has to render the entire page again, which is a waste of both time and battery life. Also, no matter if some content is cached (as it should be), the browser has to request each file from the server to see if there are changes. While recent 4G networks offer decent bandwidth, latency is still an issue.

I run Arch as well, and like it very much - but at the same time I do realize it is not for everyone, and am not smug about it. Furthermore, you are doing it wrong. You should be using ABS. Instead of step 1. type "abs extra/firefox" (or just "abs", if you wish to get the PKGBUILDs for every package in every standard repo - why you should want to do that, I have no idea, but the option is there). Then "cd/var/abs/extra/firefox". Then proceed to steps two and three. And remove step 3b, that's just lame.

Right. If I'm on a mobile device with data caps (which I don't have here, and they're an abomination, but that's another discussion), I sure as hell would be much more happy to reload an entire page (yes, some of the content such as CSS and images can be cached, but the HTML markup can't) instead of loading a little bit of JSON that would be rendered as the new data I wish to retrieve. Static HTML is obviously so much better.

(I'm not saying blocking third-party scripts and cookies is a bad thing, I do that myself. But as to whether I'd like to go back to the static web as it were in the 90s, hell no.)

Not to mention that in my experience pretty much no program offers "English, intl." option. I've done sales/customer support in English and have been commended for my English by native Brits. Still I do have an accent and voice commands are very much more (almost completely) miss than hit.

Now, when voice commands support my native Finnish I'll be seriously impressed, what with all the regional accents and spoken language being rather different from the written form. Not seeing that happening any time soon though.

There are methods beyond two-factor authentication with a mobile device. For example, my bank here in.fi has the following method: you login with a 8-digit number (your "username", I guess) and a 4-digit pin (user selectable). But after that you have to enter a single-use four digit code (the web site tells you to "enter code xxx" from your code list) to do anything. If you want to make a transaction, you have to enter another such code (you can queue many transactions though, and authorize them with a single code, so you don't end up using them all at once).

But now you're asking, what about when the codes run out? Initially you receive the first "code list" physically from the bank. You need proper ID. But beyond that, when you find out you're running low on codes, you can order a new list. That is delivered via regular mail, but in order for it to be active you have to use two codes from the previous list, enter the serial number of the new list and a given code from it. If that is being actively abused, people are keeping very quiet about it. Your banks are just lazy.

Not trolling, this has been my experience. If you want real 3D performance, the proprietary crap is what gives it. And VDPAU is nice. There are some nuisances, with Optimus chipsets you have to use Bumblebee which is kind of annoying if you don't want to burn through your laptop battery in minutes, and AFAIK the driver still doesn't support XRandR 1.something (1.2, I think?), that would allow to alter multiple monitor settings from the settings of my DE instead of using nvidia-settings.

Having said that, I've pretty much given up PC gaming so I don't really need 3D anymore. Intel is just fine for a compositing desktop.

I wish there was a "sad but true" mod. I've been running Linux on my desktop for over a decade now - dismissing all the snark about desktop Linux, it really has improved during that time. But what remains the same is "you want 3D, get NVidia". Although pretty much every chipset/driver is capable of running whatever composited window manager you like.

I think what you're trying to say is "you're". But um, no, I do quite firmly believe in what I'm saying. I took opposition to the person I was replying to, in a blanket statement saying referring to "Europe", where the elderly are dying due to energy costs. That is not happening here. We're all (up to a point) socialists here (in the Nordic countries) you know. Pay a lot of taxes for that we do, but some of us (myself included) prefer it that way.

You are referencing Daily Mail... but ok, here in.fi it can get much, much colder. Yet the elderly are not dying of the cold weather (sure, some demented ones wander off outside and die, this is a yearly phenomenon. Some people pass out drunk in the snow and die, that as well. It has nothing to do with energy prices - which have certainly not tripled in recent times). Triple, or even double, windows do wonders, even in more warmer climates. Nothing to do with "de-industralization".

If only there was a toggle called "Available offline" in Spotify (yes, premium, and also thus not ad-supported like the./ summary incorrectly claims). It would be so great. Why haven't they implemented it already.